Anam Tahmima - A Golden Age A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Spellbinding . Anam has written a story about powerful events. But it is her descriptions of the small unheralded moments that truly touch the heart. San Francisco Chronicle Tahmima Anam's deeply moving debut novel about a mother's all - consuming love for her two children set against the backdrop of war and terror has led critics to comparisons with The English Patient and A Thousand Splendid Suns. Rehana Haque a young widow transplanted to the city of Dhaka in East Pakistan is fiercely devoted to her adolescent children Maya and Sohail. Both become fervent nationalists in the violent political turmoil which in 1971, transforms a brutal Pakistani civil war into a fight to the death for Bangladeshi independence. Fair - minded and intensely protective of her family but not at all political Rehana is sucked into the conflict in spite of herself. A story of passion and revolution of family friendship and unexpected heroism A Golden Age depicts the chaos of an era and the choices everyone from student protesters to the country's leaders and rickshaw wallahs to the army's soldiers must make. Rehana herself will face a cruel dilemma; the choice she makes is at once heartbreaking and true to the character we have come to love and respect.
Title: A Golden Age A Novel
Author(s): Anam Tahmima
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780061478758
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/6/2009